This paper surveys the state-of-the-art in machine ethics, that is, considerations of how to
implement ethical behaviour in robots, unmanned autonomous vehicles, or software …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has existed in theory and practice for decades, but applications
have been relatively limited in most domains. Recent developments in AI and computing …

The value alignment problem is concerned with the design of systems that provably abide by
our human values. One approach to this challenge is through the leverage of prescriptive …

Norms have been widely enacted in human and agent societies to regulate individuals'
actions. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms …

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in ensuring that autonomous systems
behave consistently with human values. A popular approach to this challenge is through the …

Research in normative multi-agent systems has explored several approaches to compute
the norm system (set of norms) required to make coordination possible. More recently, norm …

Machine Ethics (ME) is concerned with the design of Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs), ie
autonomous agents capable of reasoning and behaving according to moral values …

Decision makers are commonly challenged with comparing, and ultimately ranking,
elements with regards to the degree to which they satisfy multiple criteria and in terms of …

Decision makers can often be confronted with the need to select a subset of objects from a
set of candidate objects by just counting on preferences regarding the objects' features …

Social interactions are key in multi-agent systems. Social dilemmas have been widely
studied to model specific problems in social interactions. However, state-of-the-art social …